The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.